Tags archives: Youtube

Taken at face value, the video below is just a very poorly-edited video cover of Lorde's "Royals," which is currently sitting atop Billboard's Hot 100 chart for the fifth week in a row.
But consider the fact that the young people lip-syncing and d[...]

The Hollywood Reporter's in-depth feature on YouTube multi-channel network Maker Studios features a crazy cast of characters -- the kind you'd only find when combining Hollywood creatives with Silicon Valley techies.
Here are a few of the interest[...]

The Internet is maturing.
What does that mean? Stunts will be scarce and the odds of going from obscurity to fame are dropping ever lower.
Remember when record labels used to sponsor YouTube contests? Those evaporated. You can't ask people to m[...]

Multichannel YouTube network Maker Studios has raised $26 million in a Series C round led by Canal+, Astro, SingTel Innov8, Lakestar and others, according to TechCrunch.
Maker Studios currently pulls in 4 billion views a month from its 27,000 chan[...]

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And you wonder why no one wants to work in the music industry.
I want you to click on the above link. Yes, take the time. That's the dirty little secret of the web, nobody ever clicks through, no one wants to waste anothe[...]

Patreon, an online video fundraising platform founded by musician and YouTube star Jack Conte, has raised a $2.1 million funding round, according to Tubefilter.
Patreon essentially provides would-be YouTube stars a chance to fund their dreams. You[...]

According to Tubefilter, the average top 1000 YouTube channels pull in $23,000 a month in ad revenue.
Little back-of-the-envelope math, anddddddd looks like a successful YouTube channel could pull in $276,000/year...BEFORE the YouTube tax of 45%, [...]

YouTube ads are proliferating, but that doesn't mean they are becoming more effective. According to TubeFilter, only about 15-25% of skippable online video ads are watched all the way through.
For advertisers, this might mean thinking twice about us[...]

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have just released a very blatant clone of Vine -- for China! According to TechCrunch, the app, Wan-Pai, has the same recording method as Vine, and yes, the app site is entirely in Chinese.
Wan-Pai might[...]

When BuzzFeed hired away Politico superstar journalist Ben Smith to serve as 'editor-in-chief' in February, even the New York Times had to step down from its perch and analyze the marriage of political and meme-journalism. When BuzzFeed launched its [...]

StyleHaul -- a network of over 2,100 YouTube channels dedicated to fashion and cosmetics -- has raised $6.5 million from European media conglomerate RTL Group, according to TubeFilter. On top of previous investment rounds, including $6.5 million from[...]

Ynon Kreiz -- former creator of Fox Kids Europe and helm of such shows as 'Deal or No Deal' and 'Big Brother' -- has signed on as head of Maker Studios, and GRP Partners' Mark Suster couldn't be happier. In a blog post earlier this week, he reiterate[...]